2026학년도 수능 영어 빈칸 변형 (30-42번)

Situational ethics is an ethical theory that takes into account the context of a situation or an act ____ judging whether it is ethical.

Supporters of this theory willingly ____ casting aside absolute moral standards.

In the absence of a universal standard or law, ____ matters is the outcome or consequences; so, the end justifies the means.

Possibly the following contrasting realities ____ help illustrate the application of situational ethics.

In a pickup game of basketball played among friends, everyone is expected to call his or her own ____ or acknowledge knocking the ball out-of-bounds.

Caring about one’s friends and maybe getting to keep playing with the group leads to ____ actions.

But, once an organized game is played with officials, most athletes will not admit to the same fouls or violations as the end goal of winning is more important ____ expressing concern for competitors.

Situational ethics has been extended by many athletes and coaches to mean trying to get away with as many actions on the field or court as ____ to gain competitive advantages.

The early grain trade firms were active in ____ surplus-producing and food deficit regions, and these firms made it their business to know the state of supply and demand in both.

Because this information was the key to their ____, these firms worked in relative secrecy, frequently built on family ties, trust, and loyalty.

In addition, these firms were able to benefit from the rise of commodity exchanges and commodities futures markets that emerged in the ____.

Agricultural markets are ____ unstable, due to changes in harvest size that result from variable weather patterns and other factors.

Locking-in prices by buying and selling grain for future delivery helped these firms to minimize ____ risks.

It made sense for the grain trading companies to manage their risks within a single firm that was ____ in more than one country, rather than operating as independent national companies trading with each other.

Their access to information in multiple markets enabled them to easily cover the ____ associated with agricultural commodity trade.

The basic guidelines for good style are not mysterious; in fact, you use ____ every day in conversation.

In ____ and in writing, we all rely heavily on cooperation to make sense of exchanges, and a polished practical style makes cooperation easier.

Writers develop such a style by acknowledging that ____ expect the same things that listeners expect in conversation: clarity, relevance, and proportion.

If you listen to someone who is not clear, who cannot stay on the topic, or who offers too much or too little information, you will ____ lose interest in the conversation.

Writers, too, need to be clear, stay on the topic, and ____ information appropriately.

In fact, this attention to audience and appropriateness may be even more ____ in writing than in conversation because writing does not permit the nonverbal communication and immediate feedback that are part of conversation.

As writers, we have to anticipate the absent reader’s response ; in effect, we ____ to imagine both halves of a virtual conversation.

Giving clients ____ opportunity to react to your designs while in progress is a key to professional success.

____, involving prospective building users as well as clients is even more valuable in the long run.

Say your client is a large corporation, such as a health care ____.

While the hospital administration ____ serve as your client, no doubt the perspectives of administration personnel will differ significantly from those of doctors, interns, residents, nurses, and other medical staff who use the building regularly.

In addition, the experiences of patients and visitors ____ use the building irregularly, often as a result of life-threatening emergencies, are altogether different as well.

Understanding how each ____ of user experiences the current medical environment as well as how each reacts to your prospective designs inevitably produces a better building.

People are likely to be more satisfied with a new building or ____ if they have been consulted in the design process.

For a large institution, this can translate into increased productivity on the job, reduced ____, less turnover, and lower costs.

____ was a strong defender of the rule of law as the ultimate guarantee, not only of security and peace, but also of freedom.

He believed that human societies were moving towards more rational forms regulated by effective and binding legal frameworks because ____ such frameworks enabled people to live in harmony, to prosper and to co-operate.

However, his belief in inevitable progress was not based on an optimistic or high-minded view of human ____.

On the contrary, it comes close to Hobbes’s outlook: man’s violent and conflict-prone nature makes it necessary to establish and maintain an effective legal framework in ____ to secure peace.

We cannot count on people’s benevolence or ____, but even ‘a nation of devils’ can live in harmony in a legal system that binds every citizen equally.

Ideally, the law is the embodiment of those political principles that all rational ____ would freely choose.

If such ____ forbid them to do something that they would not rationally choose to do anyway, then the law cannot be understood as a restraint on their freedom.

There are few of us who don’t at least want to make time for self-care activities such as exercise, ____, or relaxation.

We start each day with the ____ of intentions but then get stuck by the flood of email messages or pulled into an unexpected meeting.

As we struggle to reprioritize so we can get everything done before our deadlines, often our self-care activities are the first ____ to be given up.

No matter how much we plan, we all occasionally have ____ when that happens.

In the short ____, the impact of missing that grant deadline may be greater than the impact of missing a woodworking class.

But it’s important to recognize the cumulative ____ of not prioritizing self-care and to make sure that in the long term, this is the exception rather than the norm.

We usually ____ of a clock as a physical thing, like an alarm clock or a wristwatch.

But a clock is ____ a process embodied in a machine, and the nature of that process is repetitive.

A clock can be almost any process that repeats itself over and ____ again for an indefinite period.

Water clocks drip at a steady ____; quartz crystals vibrate regularly.

Indeed, it is ____ impossible to think of a clock that does not depend on a repetitive cycle of events.

The only example that comes to mind ____ is a candle marked in hours.

But here too there is iteration ― the repeated burning of molecules of wax ― so this too is an iterative process, although at first ____.

The use of radiocarbon ____ is another, much longer scale clock that also appears to be like this.

It seems to yield a smooth time scale but in fact does not: the decay of atoms of carbon-14 is repetitive, ____ on a large scale it gives the appearance of being continuous.

Philosophy allows us to ask ____ broader questions than many other scientific disciplines.

It is capable of looking at the bigger picture and providing important insights into the relationships between different ____ of knowledge.

Philosophy is particularly important for the interdisciplinary efforts of cognitive science, where it helps to bridge gaps between different disciplines and ____ new ways for research.

Unlike scientific methods, philosophizing is a non-empirical approach that attempts to validate concepts through ____ thinking and argumentation.

Philosophers tend to ask questions rather than provide definitive answers, and their contributions often consist of challenging established assumptions and ____ new research approaches.

However, for a more comprehensive understanding of the nature of consciousness, close collaboration between philosophy and neuroscience is ____.

This means that while philosophy can provide valuable insights into theoretical concepts and broader ethical questions, it needs to be supplemented by empirical ____ and experiments to reach a more comprehensive understanding.

While stories clearly dominate statistics from both memorability and persuasiveness perspectives, it’s rarely a battle between facts and anecdotes ― or even ____ and other facts.

The real clash is ____ between stories: the predominant incumbent and a new challenger.

As storytelling creatures, we routinely form narratives to help us understand the ____ around us.

When we experience different events or encounter various facts, our minds seek to make sense of them by forming ____ around them.

For example, if you have had some bad experiences with graduates from a particular university, you may create a negative narrative in your mind about people ____ went to that school.

Suddenly, you judge everyone from the university by what you’ve ____ on just a few unfortunate occasions.

Sometimes these internal narratives we form not only shape our beliefs and ____ but also become deeply rooted in our identity.

For example, the narratives ____ have formed around gun control or climate change are most likely related with your political ideology ― who you are as an individual.

A video game has ____ own model of reality, internal to itself and separate from the player’s external reality, the player’s bodily space and the avatar’s bodily space.

The avatar’s bodily space, the potential actions of the avatar in the game world, is the ____ way in which the reality of the external reality of the game world can be perceived.

As in the real ____, perception requires action.

The difference is that the action in the game world can only be explored through the ____ bodily space of the avatar.

Players extend their perceptual field into the ____, encompassing the available actions of the avatar.

The feedback loop of perception and action that enables you to navigate the world around you is now one step removed: instead of perceiving primarily through interaction of your own body with the external world, you’re ____ the game world through interaction of the avatar.

The entire ____ system has been extended into the game world.

In modern societies, the performing arts form a distinct category of public entertainment in opposition to the mass distribution through the media of expertly staged performances which have ____ recorded and edited.

By contrast, theater, ballet, circus, concert, rodeo, storytelling, etc., unfold their signs in real space and time, and ____ audiences who respond cognitively and emotionally on the spot.

Performers and audiences are involved in shared ____.

But sometimes frustration occurs within the boundaries of such ritualistic ____.

In industrialized and computerized cultures, the performing arts become economically unstable because the institutions which ____ them increasingly depend on public and corporate funding.

However, they retain their power of ____ for large, if not massive audiences, who prize the experiential, risk-loaded and one-time event quality they afford.

In traditional and local cultures, performances still survive and provide their audiences with a unique fulfillment in smaller scale, economically sustainable ____ settings.

In a situation of financial challenges due to reliance on ____ funding, the performing arts, which provide unique and live experiences, secure audiences who value those experiences.

There is an obvious problem with the history of dress in all of its displays and that is, although textiles survive from early periods and cultures of recorded history, actual ____ do not provide an uninterrupted flow of evidence across the same long time-span.

Therefore, to give the study of dress equal significance to other areas such as architecture, painting, prints, drawings and sculpture, it was inevitable that these other areas would provide ____ of the source material.

The history of surviving dress ____ only starts in the 17th century, and like all artefacts described as fine or decorative art, is a highly visual subject.

However, ____ most of the categories of collection and study that make up those areas, it is fluid rather than static.

Garments should be seen in movement on a human body, ____ frozen on a display figure.

This is one of the ____ difficulties when curating collections of costume and also why some modern writers find costume collections physically and intellectually lifeless.

Fortunately, in the period after 1660, when more items of dress survive to enrich our understanding of the history of the subject, there are also many painted, printed, photographed and filmed sources of evidence of ____ in clothing, caught in movement.

Often a variety of different types of illustrative examples will provide ____ about how a garment was worn within the period in which it was made.

Without the information contained in art in all of its forms, from drawing to ____, it is likely that displays of historic dress would be awkward imitations of the intentions of their original makers and owners.